US Patent Issued to Faurecia Sieges d'Automobile on Dec. 16 for "Seat base of a vehicle seat, seat and associated method of manufacture" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,947, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Faurecia Sieges d'Automobile (Nanterre, France).

"Seat base of a vehicle seat, seat and associated method of manufacture" was invented by David Ventre (Velizy Villacoublay, France) and Samuel Ploye (Pussay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat base for a vehicle seat includes: two seat base side flanges; a seat base front flange rotatably mounted with respect to the two seat base side flanges; and a mechanism for adjusting the orientation of the front flange relative to the side flanges. The mechanism includes: two connecting rods, each connecting rod being connected to one of the side ...